Special Keys
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Note: These are the default keybindings. They can be changed using the keymapper.
| ALT-ENTER | Switch to full-screen (and back). |
| ALT-PAUSE | Pause emulation. |
| CTRL-F1 | Show the keymapper configuration screen, |
| CTRL-F4 | Update cached information about mounted drives. Useful if you changed something on a mounted drive outside of DOSBox. Also cycles through disk images mounted using IMGMOUNT. |
| CTRL-F5 | Save a screenshot (goes to capture folder). |
| CTRL-ALT-F5 | Start/Stop recording of AVI video. NOTE: You may well have some problems with this, please see Recording Video for more information. |
| CTRL-F6 | Start/Stop recording sound output to a wave file (goes to capture folder). |
| CTRL-ALT-F7 | Start/Stop recording of OPL commands. |
| CTRL-ALT-F8 | Start/Stop the recording of raw MIDI commands. |
| CTRL-F7 | Decreases frameskip. |
| CTRL-F8 | Increases frameskip. |
| CTRL-F9 | Kill (close) DOSBox. |
| CTRL-F10 | Capture/Release the mouse (if you need to use the mouse within DOSBox). |
| CTRL-F11 | Decrease DOSBox cycles (slows down the emulation). |
| CTRL-F12 | Increase DOSBox cycles (speeds up the emulation). |
| ALT-F12 | Unlock speed (turbo button). |
These default bindings are also documented in the README file accompanying the software.
Language Keys
When a keyboard layout is loaded:
| CTRL+ALT+F2 | Switch between foreign layout and US layout. |
| LEFT-ALT+RIGHT-SHIFT | Activate dual layouts (for some keyboards, e.g. GK codepage 869 and RU codepage 808). |
| LEFT-ALT+LEFT-SHIFT | Deactivate dual layouts. |
For OS X you have to use additionally + [Applekey] for the same result For Linux you have to use additionally + [win] for the same result
